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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38314439/the-glass-of-milk-half-empty-dairy-development-and-nutrition-in-low-and-middle-income-countries
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REVIEW
Derek D Headey, Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Sudha Narayanan
Dairy products have an exceptionally rich nutrient profile and have long been promoted in high income countries to redress child malnutrition. But given all this potential, and the high burden of undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), why isn't dairy consumption more actively promoted in the developing world? In this review we focus on a broadly defined concept of "dairy development" to include production, trade, marketing, regulation, and demand stimulation. We address three key questions...
January 2024: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38314438/gender-rainfall-endowment-and-farmers-heterogeneity-in-wheat-trait-preferences-in-ethiopia
#2
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hom N Gartaula, Gebrelibanos Gebremariam, Moti Jaleta
Wheat is a vital cereal crop for smallholders in Ethiopia. Despite over fifty years of research on wheat varietal development, consideration of gendered trait preferences in developing target product profiles for wheat breeding is limited. To address this gap, our study used sex-disaggregated survey data and historical rainfall trends from the major wheat-growing regions in Ethiopia. The findings indicated heterogeneity in trait preferences based on gender and rainfall endowment. Men respondents tended to prefer wheat traits with high straw yield and disease-resistance potential, while women showed a greater appreciation for wheat traits related to good taste and cooking quality...
January 2024: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38130414/household-dairy-production-dairy-intake-and-anthropometric-outcomes-in-rural-bangladesh
#3
JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Mehrab Bakhtiar, John Hoddinott
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh. Consistent with the assumption of imperfectly functioning markets for dairy products, ownership of dairy cows increases the likelihood that a child 6-59 months consumes milk by 7.7 percentage points with no difference in this association between boys and girls. This association nearly doubles in magnitude when we consider households that own a dairy cow that produced milk in the last year...
November 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38130413/viewpoint-finance-needs-of-the-agricultural-midstream
#4
REVIEW
Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, Sylvan Herskowitz, Cristhian Pulido
Recent literature suggests that agricultural value chains are changing rapidly and places an increasing focus on the importance of actors and activities taking place in the "midstream" of these value chains, after production and prior to final sale. This article discusses the financial needs of midstream actors in agricultural value chains, emphasizing differences across midstream activities and highlighting how value chain characteristics can influence both financial needs and potential remedies. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the prospects of digital financial services and policy levers for government actors in this space...
November 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38130412/sustainable-maize-intensification-through-site-specific-nutrient-management-advice-experimental-evidence-from-nigeria
#5
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Miet Maertens, Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Jordan Chamberlin
There is growing evidence on the impacts of site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) from Asia. The evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where SSNM developments are more recent and where conditions concerning soil fertility and fertilizer use differ importantly from those in Asia, is extremely scarce. We evaluate a SSNM advisory tool that allows extension agents to generate fertilizer recommendations tailored to the specific situation of an individual farmer's field, using a three-year randomized controlled trial with 792 smallholder farmers in the maize belt of northern Nigeria...
November 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38037573/social-incentives-as-nudges-for-agricultural-knowledge-diffusion-and-willingness-to-pay-for-certified-seeds-experimental-evidence-from-uganda
#6
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julius Okello, Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Carl Johan Lagerkvist, Jens Rommel, Wellington Jogo, Sylvester Ojwang, Sam Namanda, James Elungat
A transition from low-input subsistence farming in Sub-Saharan Africa will require the use of yield-increasing agricultural technologies. However, in developing countries, most farmers continue to rely heavily on pest-infested and disease-infected recycled seed from own or local sources leading to low yields. This study used a field experiment to examine the effect of a social incentive combined with goal setting on the diffusion of agricultural knowledge and uptake of quality certified seed by farmers. We relaxed the seed access and information/knowledge constraints by introducing improved varieties of sweetpotato in the study villages and providing training to carefully selected progressive farmers who were then linked to co-villagers...
October 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38028948/ethnicity-information-and-cooperation-evidence-from-a-group-based-nutrition-intervention
#7
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kalyani Raghunathan, Muzna Alvi, Mrignyani Sehgal
Development programs often rely on locally hired agents for service delivery, especially for interventions promoting agricultural practices, health, and nutrition. These agents are key to reaching underserved communities, especially women, with information and services around recommended practices. However, where societies are socially stratified, differences in ethnic identities between agents and beneficiaries may impact the effectiveness of information and service delivery and the uptake of recommended behaviors...
October 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37547490/growth-in-milk-consumption-and-reductions-in-child-stunting-historical-evidence-from-cross-country-panel-data
#8
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Beliyou Haile, Derek Headey
Agricultural and food policies are increasingly being tasked with doing more to improve the nutritional status of low-income populations, especially reductions in child stunting. Which specific food sectors warrant additional policy attention is less clear, although a growing body of research argues that increased animal-sourced food consumption in general, and increased dairy consumption specifically, can significantly reduce the risks of stunting, as well as deficiencies in micronutrients and high quality protein...
July 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37547489/comparing-delivery-channels-to-promote-nutrition-sensitive-agriculture-a-cluster-randomized-controlled-trial-in-bangladesh
#9
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Akhter Ahmed, Fiona Coleman, John Hoddinott, Purnima Menon, Aklima Parvin, Audrey Pereira, Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy
We use a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to compare two models of delivering nutrition content jointly to husbands and wives: deploying female nutrition workers versus mostly male agriculture extension workers. Both approaches increased nutrition knowledge of men and women, household and individual diet quality, and women's empowerment. Intervention effects on agriculture and nutrition knowledge, agricultural production diversity, dietary diversity, women's empowerment, and gender parity do not significantly differ between models where nutrition workers versus agriculture extension workers provide the training...
July 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37234381/when-increasing-vegetable-production-may-worsen-food-availability-gaps-a-simulation-model-in-india
#10
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marie L Spiker, Joel Welling, Daniel Hertenstein, Suvankar Mishra, Krishna Mishra, Kristen M Hurley, Roni A Neff, Jess Fanzo, Bruce Y Lee
Translating agricultural productivity into food availability depends on food supply chains. Agricultural policy and research efforts promote increased horticultural crop production and yields, but the ability of low-resource food supply chains to handle increased volumes of perishable crops is not well understood. This study developed and used a discrete event simulation model to assess the impact of increased production of potato, onion, tomato, brinjal (eggplant), and cabbage on vegetable supply chains in Odisha, India...
April 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36643024/real-time-monitoring-of-food-price-policy-interventions-during-the-first-two-years-of-covid-19
#11
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Consoli, Juan José Egas Yerovi, Matteo Machiorlatti, Cristian Morales Opazo
COVID-19 has resulted in a shock to agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. Although policy responses were more muted than during the 2007-2008 world food crisis, efforts to insulate from supply shocks and ensure local availability during COVID-19 have generally included export restrictions and import tariff reductions, among other responses. In an effort to enable rapid market monitoring and realignment, we develop a new indicator defined as a monthly nominal rate of protection "express" which seeks to indicate how policies enacted are affecting prices domestically in real-time in order to understand how they responded...
January 10, 2023: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36338242/has-covid-19-accelerated-the-e-commerce-of-agricultural-products-evidence-from-sales-data-of-e-stores-in-china
#12
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guo Jianxin, Jin Songqing, Zhao Jichun, Wang Hongbiao, Zhao Fang
We investigated the operation of e-stores specializing in food and agricultural products before and after the occurrence of COVID-19. A difference-in-difference (DID) method was employed to estimate the relationship between COVID-19 and the online sales of agricultural products using data from 164,002 food and agricultural product e-commerce stores (in short, e-stores) of two major Chinese e-commerce platforms in 120 prefectural-level or above cities. The results demonstrated that while COVID-19 and its control measures were associated with a substantial growth in the monthly sales of food and agricultural product e-stores, the growth varies considerably across store scales and with the type of food and agricultural product in which an e-store is specialized...
November 2, 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36570776/guest-editors-introduction-the-role-of-policy-in-reducing-malnutrition-in-sub-saharan-africa
#13
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Théophile T Azomahou, Raouf Boucekkine, Harounan Kazianga, Mark Korir, Njuguna Ndung'u
Sub-Saharan African countries experience various market failures and other constraints in food production, marketing, and food consumption. Consequently, sub-Saharan Africa governments have put in place a myriad of policies to counter these failures. Agricultural, food and nutrition policies address nutrition outcomes, such as hunger, undernourishment, wasting, stunting, child mortality, inadequate food consumption, food insecurity, and volatile food prices, thus improve nutrition outcomes among the population...
November 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36570775/nationally-representative-estimates-of-the-cost-of-adequate-diets-nutrient-level-drivers-and-policy-options-for-households-in-rural-malawi
#14
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kate R Schneider
A growing literature uses least-cost diets to evaluate how effectively a food system supports access to nutritious foods. We identify the cost of meeting nutrient requirements for whole households in rural Malawi from and the nutrient-level drivers thereof. From 2013 to 2017, we can identify a household least-cost diet only 60% of the time with an average cost of $2.32/person/day (2011 US$ PPP). We illustrate that larger households have more diverse nutrient needs and face a higher cost for 1000 calories of a sufficiently nutrient dense diet...
November 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37064798/climatic-conditions-and-household-food-security-evidence-from-tanzania
#15
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heather Randell, Clark Gray, Elizabeth H Shayo
Food security and adequate nutrition are critical for achieving progress toward sustainable development. Two billion people worldwide experience moderate to severe food insecurity, and rates of hunger have increased over the past several years after declining steadily for decades. The FAO attributes this increase in large part to climate change, though empirical evidence on the relationship between climatic conditions and food security remains limited. We examine this question by linking nationally representative longitudinal data from four rounds of the Tanzania National Panel Survey to high-resolution gridded climate data...
October 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36267324/public-health-shocks-learning-and-diet-improvement
#16
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuan Gao, Rigoberto A Lopez, Ruili Liao, Xiaoou Liu
Many governments aim to mitigate health risks by attacking nutritional failures. In this article, we exploit a unique natural experiment, the COVID-19 pandemic as an exogenous public health shock, to estimate the learning effects of intensive health information campaigns on nutrient intake during the pandemic. Using data from nearly-one million food purchases in China, our empirical findings strongly support the learning effect in explaining improvements in nutrient intake in the post-COVID-19 period. We conclude that when public health shocks occur, policy makers can boost relevant learning mechanisms by promoting information and education to improve individuals' awareness of preventive health behaviors of a more permanent nature, which can lead to health improvements in a society...
October 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36248313/changes-in-dietary-practices-of-mother-and-child-during-the-covid-19-lockdown-results-from-a-household-survey-in-bihar-india
#17
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zakir Husain, Saswata Ghosh, Mousumi Dutta
The outbreak of COVID-19, and the national-level lockdown to contain it, were expected to disrupt supply chains, lead to livelihood loss, and reduce household income. Studies anticipated a decline in food security in India, leading to a near famine-like situation. In this study, we examine the change in Dietary Score (number of food groups consumed out of a possible eight) and proportion of respondents complying with Minimum Dietary Diversity norms (consuming at least four food groups) among women aged 15-49 years and their youngest child (aged between 7 and 36 months) during the lockdown...
October 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38031563/sweetened-beverage-taxes-economic-benefits-and-costs-according-to-household-income
#18
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jessica C Jones-Smith, Melissa A Knox, Norma B Coe, Lina P Walkinshaw, John Schoof, Deven Hamilton, Philip M Hurvitz, James Krieger
Taxing sweetened beverages has emerged as an important and effective policy for addressing their overconsumption. However, taxes may place a greater economic burden on people with lower incomes. We assess the degree to which sweetened beverage taxes in three large US cities placed an inequitable burden on populations with lower incomes by assessing spending on beverage taxes by income after taxes have been implemented, as well as any net transfer of funds towards lower income populations once allocation of tax revenue is considered...
July 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35783573/food-insecurity-during-the-first-year-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-four-african-countries
#19
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lorin Rudin-Rush, Jeffrey D Michler, Anna Josephson, Jeffrey R Bloem
We document trends in food security up to one full year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in four African countries. Using household-level data collected by the World Bank, we highlight differences over time amid the pandemic, between rural and urban areas, and between female-headed and male-headed households within Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria. We first observe a sharp increase in food insecurity during the early months of the pandemic with a subsequent gradual decline. Next, we find that food insecurity has increased more in rural areas than in urban areas relative to pre-pandemic data within each of these countries...
June 27, 2022: Food Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/35638083/covid-19-information-management-by-local-governments-and-food-consumption
#20
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vivek Pandey, Shyam Singh, Deepak Kumar
Federal and state governments in developing countries have tasked local governments with managing COVID-19 on the ground. The bottom-up approach is critical to ensuring household food security, especially in rural areas. We have utilized data from a panel of Indian households that participated in two rounds of a livelihoods survey. While the first round was fielded before COVID-19, the second round was conducted telephonically after the COVID-19-lockdown. We developed an Information Management Response Index (IMRI) to measure the strength of local governments' information management initiatives...
May 26, 2022: Food Policy
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